Zuffa's Mistake

After watching Torres destroy Tapia, I came away with a few impressions. #1 - on a pound per pound basis Miguel Torres may indeed be the best fighter in the world. He completely dismantled his opponent on his feet even though that is potentially the best area Tapia had a chance to win. Torres even did this spinning axe kick, that I had never seen in a fight. It was like a Jackie Chan movie where Jackie is doing all this crazy stuff and the other guy is just kind of at his mercy. Anyway I was very impressed by Torres.
#2 - I think that Zuffa made a mistake by trying to make the WEC all about Bantam through Welter weights. I think they should have kept the middleweight and light heavy weight divisions active. Because you had a forum where people could care about the likes of a Brian Stann or Doug Marshall and now these guys are going to have to try and compete in arguable the deepest division in UFC. I just think they could have left in alone and kept in like the minor leagues of MMA. The bantam and feather weight divisions would be the top in world and the other divisions would kind of fill in the show. An entire show of bantam and lightweights just isn't that entertaining for me, sorry. There are a couple I like to see, but there are also a couple of guys that were coming up in the upper weight classes that I also liked to watch that like will disappear onto the under cards of UFC events. Although I did see Cantwell's name on the card in January, but so far he is the only one. Chael Sonnen was already in the UFC and didn't fair that well, but was entertaining and one of the better middleweights in WEC. I think they could have treated in like the minor leagues, or the truck series where you work your way up to the championship and if you make two successful title defenses you automatically move up to the UFC and move within a fight or two of fighting for the title. Then they could have another title fight for the vacated title between the top two contenders. It would also be a platform for quality guys that couldn't make it in the UFC or are in the twilight of their career, ala Jens Pulver. That would give the WEC 5 titles, and they could have at least one up every show and then if someone completes the double defense the title could be right back up for grabs again at the next show. I would like to see MMA gain some exposure, but I think they ruined a good opportunity for more quality shows by combining these upper classes. Now you have 3 belts up for grabs and all of the fighters are lighter weight guys in the WEC. It just seems like a blown opportunity to me.